Jon Nazareth
Western Thunderer
I started this thread in my G3 workbench but thought it a good idea to move or start a new one just for this project. With so many things going on in 'My G3 Workbench' I felt it was getting a bit untidy. T
I've finished the basic underframe and am now turning my thoughts to the tender. It oozes rivets and I thought that I'd have a go at getting somewhere near the correct number. I've a feeling that this whole project will tax my abilities when it comes to what I can or can't achieve and therefore, as mentioned before, it won't be a true representation of Lion.
Getting back to the rivets. To buy enough rivets from Scale Hardware to complete the tender I thought too expensive and so I've had a practice go at forming them on this little machine and this scrap piece of brass sheet. I thought that a long row of punched rivets in 20 thou brass would set up a bow but this experiment has shown otherwise. The rivets scale at 1mm across the heads and I made up my own punch and anvil to form these. I think they look quite good . There was some distortion but I found that I could tweak the brass back to shape quite easily and I will be soldering the sides to brass angle so this should keep everything true, I hope.
The riveting tool is made by G W Tools tel., 01903 767231 mainly for 4mm and 7mm scales and the sets of anvils and punches reflect this. It does need fixing down but I'll sort that out when I start the job proper.
Jon
I've finished the basic underframe and am now turning my thoughts to the tender. It oozes rivets and I thought that I'd have a go at getting somewhere near the correct number. I've a feeling that this whole project will tax my abilities when it comes to what I can or can't achieve and therefore, as mentioned before, it won't be a true representation of Lion.
Getting back to the rivets. To buy enough rivets from Scale Hardware to complete the tender I thought too expensive and so I've had a practice go at forming them on this little machine and this scrap piece of brass sheet. I thought that a long row of punched rivets in 20 thou brass would set up a bow but this experiment has shown otherwise. The rivets scale at 1mm across the heads and I made up my own punch and anvil to form these. I think they look quite good . There was some distortion but I found that I could tweak the brass back to shape quite easily and I will be soldering the sides to brass angle so this should keep everything true, I hope.
The riveting tool is made by G W Tools tel., 01903 767231 mainly for 4mm and 7mm scales and the sets of anvils and punches reflect this. It does need fixing down but I'll sort that out when I start the job proper.
Jon